2012

Baseball sweeps CMS Stags, snaps six-game losing streak

Author: Damian Mendieta (Senior Writer) After a three-week dry period for the Occidental Baseball team, the Tigers are back in the race for first place in...

With or Without the Facebook Photos, Keeping Cape Town Close

Author: Vera Goodwin-Brown Upon my bittersweet return to the States after studying abroad for four months in Cape Town, South Africa, I found myself feeling as...

Tigers on the Prowl

Author: Compiled by David Weightman W.  Golf: Chloe Johnson As the only first-year on the women's golf team, Chloe Johnson (Seattle, WA) has shouldered a lot of...

Live NHL playoffs provide intense, high quality fan experience

Author: Jack McHenry (Sports Columnist) There is an area where antagonistic nationalism, gluttonous beer drinking, rabid fanaticism, the agony of defeat, the ecstasy of victory and...

Coach Brian Newhall back at the helm of resurgent Occidental men’s tennis program

Author: Lauren Taylor It's a bit of a misnomer to call Occidental men's tennis coach Brian Newhall "new." The winningest coach in program history, Newhall gave...

As college costs rise, loan market could be next bubble to bust

Author: Anthony Labarga   The collapse of the consumer mortgage apparatus and the subsequent contraction of the global economy has been a disaster for anybody who was...

An unstoppable march toward domestic drone proliferation

Author: Clark Scally   Before long, the skies above Los Angeles might be home to an airborne creature better known for its lethal presence high above Afghanistan,...

Screening of ‘Skin I’m In’ more than skin-deep

Author: Vivien Reece Occidental is hosting an advanced screening of Professor of Art History and the Visual Arts Broderick Fox's documentary, "Skin I'm In," this evening...

Long tuned-out, KOXY makes a comeback

Author: Kate Bustamante   Correction appended   "That's the six nine hitlist--where everyone gets pleased," Kyle Scoble (junior) says. Scoble delivers this colorful line to close each episode of...

Two mindsets meet through music

Author: Vivien Reece     On Saturday, March 3, the Occidental-Caltech Symphony Orchestra performed four enchanting musical selections to an animated audience in Thorne Hall. Led by conductor...

Why the Chicago Strike Matters

Author: Henry Dickmeyer It would be unjust to dub the Chicago Teachers Union strike as an example of teachers, as Mitt Romney put it, "(making) plain that...

Art for the people at Cactus Gallery

Author: Emma Lodes Nestled among the shops and cafes of Eagle Rock Boulevard lies a unique and colorful oasis of art and artisan crafts that caters...